​Maureen Wilks

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Artist, Photographer, Writer

One fall I went to watch the early morning ascension of the balloons at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Over 700 balloons ascended into the clear blue morning sky and it was a photographer’s paradise with a dazzling array of vivid colors. It was quite a few years before I began to work with some of these images and I am still working on a series of pieces from that wonderful day many years ago. Balloons No. 1 was one of the first images that I updated once I began to work with backlit film and take advantage of creating my own mat border around the original print.